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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD. DUCHESNE, UTAH ,j i Urr ... ...r.MHi 1,1. ..I us- - Womans World Refresh Wardrobe by Restyling Garments No Longer in Fashion stagescreen; I, r Jolla (Dooley) McFarlanes husband, Richard, disappeared In World War I, leaving her with two children. She and John I. McFarlane, her father-in-lahave tried in vain to find some trace ol Richard, either dead or alive. Twenty-fiv- e years later Rie Is 27 and serving in the army of World War II while Jill, 26, professes an Interest In Spang Cordon, a young lieutenant. Julia still clings to the belief that Richard may yet be alive and refuses to have him declared legaUy dead. Her greatest worry Is that her daughter might marry 6pang, thus becoming an army wife, subject to the same grief she has endured for a quarter of a century without word of Richard. CHAPTER n Julia twisted her hands together. John I., she began abruptly, Ric didnt have a furlough when he came home. He traded for some other mans pass. Jill told me." The old mans mustache twitched. I suppose if they put him in the guard-hous- e youd send him a fruitcake with a file in it! If they put him in the guardhouse his chances for a commission are gone." "Might be a good thing. Being a buck private might be good for him." He stood up, glared down at her fiercely. Dooley, you spoiled that boy! I know, Julia said heavily, but be was all I had! He needed me. Jill didnt. She was always like you. Shes a McFarlane. The stand on their own feet. But that young Richard hes another Dont say it, John I., Julia Weve begged, pain in her eyes. put that bitterness away. Dont let it come alive again." "But it is coming alive again, whether you want it or not. Ive seen it for years. I warned you that that boy was growing up like his father. I was his mother, Julia reminded him. Ive heard that, too! Anger, swift and dark, rode the old mans face. ' He rose and towered, though he was four inches shorter than she. For years I heard that And I wasnt strong enough to defeat It. So now this thing starts all over again. Heres another $TcFarlane wearing the uniform of his country and wearing no honor with it! Julia smiled dryly, without mirth. Do I hear a big wind blowing? Who hid the switches, Id like to know, when he was little, when Id cut stout ones and laid down the law? Who sneaked upstairs with suckers and gingerbread? You neednt roar, John I., I know you like a book." ' no Dooley," he said grimly, matter what you say, Im going to court next term and file that paper. Ive listened to you long enough. Youve got a right to a life of your own, and Im going to see that you have it." Julias face drained swiftly, and out of the whiteness her eyes were embers. No. No, John I., I wont let Julia McFarlane had done all that. Born a McFarlane and married to,a distant cousin of the same name, she had dragged the old place back from desuetude alone, except for the fumbling, peppery encouragement of old John I. McFarlane. Julia was slender and calm and merry, but indomitable with it, and for a long time, longer than he liked to reckon, Dave Patterson knew that he had been in love with her. Not that he had let her know. To Dooley he was good old Dave, whose farm and handsome old brick house had been swallowed up by the encroaching power project, who was a big bewildered now, uprooted from the land that Pattersons had farmed for generations, trying to find himself again by running a bank and not being very happy at it. He was forty-seve- n and thinning on top, and one knee was stiff so the army would not have him, and his first wife had been dead for so long that her memory had faded to a small, silvery shadow. He crossed the porch and opened a french door without knocking, and instantly a young man in the tan es you do it. He twisted his mouth. You cant stop me if I want to do it" Julias voice came, hoarse and I think I can stop you. And thin. I will! He's been gone twenty-fiv- e years. If he were legally dead, everything would be cleared up. Youre a fool a weak, sentimental fool! All right she sighed, Im a fooL Leave it like that, John I. She walked away, setting her boots down firmly. John I. watched her go, frownA beautiful woman, a fine ing. woman, too good for that worthless man she had married, the man who had been his own son. Ill do it anyway! he said aloud. Then he leaned back and thumbed tobacco into his pipe. Dave Patterson rode his horse slowly across the great dam. On his right the power lake slept and flat under the stars, a skittish young bass flinging himself as an offering to the frail platinum moon and falling back to mint great coins of shadowy quicksilver. sil-ve- Remarkable Woman Is Julia A At the lower end of the lane young pigs got up and skittered away hysterically when the horse snorted at them. Every fence post glistened white, and beyond the wire the dew shone on rectangular roofs of rows of low houses. The homely farm smell was definite now, the mixture of pigs and hay and froggy cattle-pon- d that gave Dave a feeling of A naked bulb burned nostalgia. above a gate, shadowed by dark old trees, and Dave got down and tied his horse, opened the gate and passing through closed it carefully, walking across the shorn, quiet grans to the .house. Behind high windows soft lights glowed, and the house Itself loomed starkly white under the aged trees. Dave remembered the way It had looked not so long sgo. O.d and faded, the mortar melting sadly from between the tired bricks, a little shelf of a porch with spindly railings sagging. Now it was pillared and restored and proud, with a sweep of drive between ivied stone posts and the fanlight above the door gleaming was down here alone hating me for being so slow. Are you Spang?" Dave asked. Im Spang. They hung that on me at college. Youll excuse us, sir, if we take off? Jill said, We have to drive the station-wagoIt has plenty of B gas in it, but Dooley says to remember that the tires have to last all winter. Spang took her elbow with a Good proud, proprietary air. night, sir. Glad to have seen you. You look very decorative, you The militwo, Dave approved. tary is at its best with something fluffy alongside. More pleasing to the eye, no but not doubt, Spang amended, quite so effective as an oxygen mask and parachute. I hope you know where this dance is. Remember Im a country boy from down the Delta. I could get lost mighty easy in these hills. Jill knows every hill," Dave told him. I should! Ive hunted chinquapins on them and got chiggqrs on practically all of them. Have fun, kids. Dave went through the hall to the foot of the stairs. There he intoned in a firm, carrying voice, I could just sit here and talk to myself. Or I could I go home. Oh, hello, Dooley. thought maybe youd gone to bed. Julia leaned over the banister. "At nine oclock? I don't do that any more. I wake up at two a. m. and think too Aiuch. Ill be down in a minute. She came presently, trailing a flowered chintz housegown. Her hair was roughened, her eyes looked a little shadowed. This is my sixth change of costume for today, as she dropped into a chair. When are you going to ease off this strenuous business? And what you need is a drink. Not tonight, Dave. It stimulates me too much. I cant sleep. But fix one for yourself and you can make one for John I., too. Hell be in presently. No ice for him he hates having it bump against his As for this strenuous mustache. life, it wont be over soon, I fear. They put Fosters boy into One A today. I argued that he was essential, that we had to raise food for our army, but old Mr. Corbett he is and you know how always stiff with the letter of the law asked me if I wanted to keep this farm for my children or let the Nazis have it. Dave went to the kitchen, came back presently with two tall glasses. So you revised your decision about letting Jill run around with the army? he said. What can I do, Dave? Shes a grown woman. I cant put her in a convent She has to have fun. Shes twenty-si- x years old. Sounds incredible, doesnt it? The span between two wars. Richards last leave before he went over, and I was so young and so heart-tor- n and so terribly in love and so unhappy with it. I cant believe that that agonized, nineteen - year - old thing was I! Two babies, and no home, no husband, nothing till you came and found me, and John I. brought me back here. I dont want anything like that for Jill. I dont want that loneliness for her, sitting at home, watching the mail, waiting, freezing with dread every time a messenger comes down the street And I dont want her to have what Ive had for twenty-fiv- e years silence! Not even to know, not to be certain whether it was quite right either to grieve or to be resigned. But what can I do?" We "Nothing," Dave agreed. cant live other peoples lives for them. No matter how much we love them. Id like to live your life differently, if I could. But I like my life. Whats wrong with it? "Its empty. Oh, I know what youre going to say. Youve crowded it full of work and responsibility. Youve raised Ric and Jill, and taken care of John I. and a few hundred pigs. You've made this farm a success, but what does it get you, Dooley you, personally? It gets me just that, Dave. Success. What else is there what else beside accomplishment? Work that is of value, to me and to the world. What else is there? she-sigh- Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE THINK we can divide women into two groups when they look into their old clothes closets. Theres the first group who make a wry face and who try to get rid of these garments as quickly as possible. Then theres the second group. These women thoughtfully pick up each garment, consult their fashion notes and convert .the dresses into something that could have come from a smart department store. To the smart woman, theres not a dress no matter how old, that cannot prove useful if she is clever with the needle. Some garments naturally will require a good deal of restyling or even complete alteration. Others will need just a slight change in neckline or skirt to make them completely new and refreshed. Dresses frequently discarded are old formals which look so woebegone when they come out of closets. Yet look at the beautiful materials in them, and think for a moment how nicely they could be made into perfectly beautiful houseg coats, new formals or suits. If the neckline on an old formal is hopeless, its an easy matter to alter this. Perhaps you will buy a bit of net and work this into a new type of yoke and sleeves. Sequlnned straps may be taken apart and used at the wrists as seen in so many of the gowns showing Grecian influence. Or, take the sequins apart and use them as a decoration around the neckline, or clustered together in a design or flower. I blouse of breeches and olive-dra- b the Air Corps, with a silver bar on his shoulder, jumped to his feet A dark young man, his hair cut short and disciplined with difficulty, with a good pair of honest blue eyes. Dave said, I thought Hello, you were Ric at first. I thought he must have got his shoulder-hardwar- e mighty quick. How do you do, sir? The soldier showed very white teeth In a Im Spencer Gordon. quick smile. I used to be a friend of Rics before the war." When Old Friends Get Together Before you got those? Dave grinned and indicated the silver bars. Now, no friendship with men in the ranks, eh? Old military protocol. I'm Dave Patterson. Lived on the next place till the TVA drowned me out. So youre in the air, are you? "Not now. They grounded me for a while to teach aerodynamics in T.S. thats technical school, sir. But I have my wings, and I hope to be back in the air before long. I assume youre here to see Jill? Yes. Young Gordon flushed. I met Jill at Ridley Field two weeks ago, but Ric and I were in college together. Seems like a century ago. We're going to some dance, I think. Met Jills mother yet? Yes, sir, shes upstairs helping Jill dress. I met the grandfather, too. He's out somewhere now tending a sick pig. A sick pig is a catastrophe on this place. The McFarlanes raise the finest hogs in Tennessee. My people were farmers, too. Mississippi. Cotton mostly. But my father and mother died when I was very young. Whats Ric doing now?" Dave Is he going to try for the asked. cadet corps? He washed out, I think some minor point or other. Now hes trying for officer's school, so I hear. I dont see him often. Thats a big post down there, and you rarely hear much about a man unless hes in your own squadron. Young Gordon stopped abruptly as heels clicked on the polished stairs. In the big mirror in the hall Dave could see the reflection of Jill coming down. , She paused at the door, and Dave saw the young lieutenants throat twitch and his eyes glow as he sprang to his feet. Jill wns the prettiest thing alive, Dave decided but not beautiful as Julia was. Jill said, Hello, Dave. I didn't hear you come in. i thought Spang ed Make a Velvet Housecoat Out of an Old Formal If you have an old velvet formal or dinner dress of prewar vintage, you may be delighted to discover that the velvet is of an exquisite quality. Restore it to life by steaming, or have it cleaned professionally. Your daughter may be looking for one of the new bare shoulder formals to wear at her high school dance, and this might be just the material for her. There will probably be enough for just such a dress. If not, select a small quantity of wide grosgraln in matching color and use it at the skirt or around the bodice for trimming. Another good idea for the velvet garment is a housecoat. If there is not quite enough material to make a comfortable, coat of this type, plan to use coral and lime draping at the front, as this is a very effective combination with black velvet Among the innumerable uses for this velvet, you might discover that the dress could be remodeled into a Victorian or Renaissance style formal for current wear. Recut the neckline, making it a square or sweetheart type, and add a bit of lace ruffling to give charm. This lace might also be used as an insert in the skirt or as a decoration around the wrists. Consider the Material When Doing Restyling Just as you select a new dress for its appropriate material, you Dave Has His Little Secret Dave could have said, Theres But he knew he love, Dooley. would not say it Sometimes he was certain, wearily, that he would never say it He had loved Dooley for so long but even now, after a span of 25 uncertain years he had never mentioned it to her because he knew instinctively she would have drawn herself into a shell and their friendship, which had come to mean so much to both of them, would have become strained, possibly even ended. Sometimes I think He said, you're a wonderful woman, Dooley. And then there are times when Im convinced that you're a sentimental idiot Twenty-fiv- e years and not a word, and still you won't give up. (TO BE CONTINUED) Style Make a Perky suit from it. must consider material when remodeling. I think you will find that old taffeta and satin formals can be made into bright, perky suits either for yourself or a teen-ag- e daughter. These materials are luxurious UiXtl-colore- d Rudolph Valentino were considered ideal.' But now the blonds are coming into their own. At Paramount Sterling Lucille Ball introduces a bit of whimsy in the fashion field in Hunt Strombergs Personal Column wears a hat which has feathers dyed in a polka dot pattern, with a slip to match! Its an idea whipped up by Elois Jennsen, Strombergs fashion designer, who got her first big picture break when she did Hedy Lamarrs clothes for Dishonored Lady, and its certainly an original one. Bv I Heavy Loser Then theres the one about tt' nJ perennial Scot who had a heai attack. He was tossing pennit to children in thq street and ti string broke. A Poor Show Worried Tenant: Its disgraa fuL Im sure two rats were fight ing in my room last night." t Landlord: So what do you n pect to get for $3.00 a week? Ba.. I fights? y Too Wise for & That Kind Lady: What? Are yo back again? Arent you the sam' man I gave a piece of pie lasRA week ? I didnt expect to see yo- again. j .OOh Beggar: "I didnt eat the pie.;RO How About Being Right? j He: Do you want to be jCNf i ( thg Presidents wife ? She: Id rather be Presider. A New Twist I wonder why it is that Experts at Warner Bros, think men are so Probably because it take theyve discovered the secret of good-nature- Dane Clarks appeal to the fair sex. They say Its because he smol- - them so long to get mad through. deaf ; Typical of Hansen Bangs flair for the bolero is this wine wool suit worn with a pink tucked crepe blouse. Roll collar and buttoned shirt cuffs lend piquancy to the jacket. Four flaps simulate pockets. and require rather high style to set them off properly. For the present season you might like to make them into a lovely suit perhaps with a modified bustle. First select a good pattern and then prepare the material for your project This will probably require ripping the whole garment apart as the remodeling will be a complete change from the former garment. Pay particular attention to such detail as ' the sleeves and the bustle and follow the pattern carefully. If there is not quite enough material, use contrasting ribbon, or modify the style just a little to suit the individual wearer. Bustles are attractive only if they are styled correctly. A dress form is handy to have for moulding the lines carefully, as they may require slight adaptation from the original style. Pin and baste carefully and then try the effect on the actual person and make any other necessary adjustments before putting in the final stitches. You will have to sew both of these fabrics carefully to make them look their best Allow plenty of room, as they do not give when worn. When sewing sheer material, set the machine stitches carefully, and test on a strip of fabric before you do any actual sewing on the accessory you are making. You may also use tissue paper underneath the material when sewing, as this gives the material more body while you stitch. This is easily ripped off when you finish the sewing. Planning Wardrobes There are many interesting ways of choosing clothing for yourself. One of the best ways of appearing your most attractive is always to choose colors that blend well or contrast with your own personal type of beauty. If you have a lovely home, look to the colors you? use in your rooms and borrow them for your wardrobe. Or, if you have a lovely picture print in color, test the colors against your own complexion and see if they cant furnish inspiration for your clothing. Check all colors you would use on yourself from all angles. See what they do for you under different lighting, and when you are certain they flatter you always, use them as a basis for your wardrobe. Its always a good idea to have one or two good basic dresses in the wardrobe, and several sets of accessories to go with them. It yuu have a suit, make sure It fits perfectly, and then build a wardrobe around it with different blouses and dickies, hats, shoes and other accessories. Fashion Flashes Hats remain more flirtatious than ever tor the new year. You'll be seeing bright plumes, tufted .satins and plenty of posies in the new headgear. Other hat seem to be with sequins and more sequins, and theres no limit on colors in this department. Youll find plenty of slleer and gold sequins along with ones. romantic; John Gilbert and Hayden, Sonny Tufts, William Holden, William Bendix, Howard da Silva and Johnny Sands, all blonds, are cast in Blaze of Noon, a story of early commercial flying. A second attraction is the fact that some of the most valuable planes in the country, dating from World War I and now practically museum pieces, will be shown in action. fresh-lookin- pig-head- these hills." Shirt-Cu-ff was when movie TIME had to be dark to be Hats in the shops look like very pretty boxes of bonbons. They come in the prettiest of pastel shades, champagne, beige, winter white, pink, ice blue, ttqua and mocha. Any woman is certain to And her dream hat among.these. Look also for swirling ostrich feathers, but dont wear them un. less youre strictly the type, or can find one turned to fit ymir face. First Patient (waiting tor's office): How do you doU' EANE CLARK ders." Elevated to stardom because of his performance in That Way with Women, hes now smoldering in Deep Valley. Im aching from neuritis. Second Patient: Glad to inee LfT you. Im Lewis from Lemoore. RC , CV an5 round Drunk walking round a telephone pole: Ill the gate to this place if it takeyoU I all night. 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